Research Catalog

Title

Temperature regulation in laboratory rodents / Christopher J. Gordon.

Author

Gordon, Christopher J.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.

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Description

xiv, 276 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Physiology, Comparative
• Animals, Laboratory
• Body Temperature Regulation > physiology
• Rodentia > physiology
• Body temperature > Regulation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-267) and index.

Contents

• Introduction to temperature regulation -- Brief historical perspective -- Current research status of thermoregulation -- Why study laboratory rodents? -- Overview of temperature regulation in rodents -- Do rodents provide a suitable model for human thermoregulation? -- Neurology of temperature regulation -- Temperature sensitivity of the CNS -- Neurophysiological studies -- Neuropharmacological agents -- CNS lesions and temperature regulation -- Fever -- Metabolism -- Partitioning of metabolism -- Methods for measuring metabolism -- Basal metabolism -- Metabolism during hibernation -- Maximum (peak) metabolic rate -- Metabolic thermoneutral zone -- Physical factors affecting metabolism -- Thermoregulatory effector responses -- Peripheral vasomotor tone -- Metabolic (facultative) thermogenesis -- Evaporative heat loss -- Behavioral thermoregulatory effectors -- Motor activity as a thermoregulatory effector? -- Body temperature -- Partitioning of body temperature -- Core temperature -- Brain thermal homeostasis -- Thermal tolerance -- Circadian temperature rhythm.
• (cont) Effects of psychological stress on body temperature -- Growth, reproduction, development, and aging -- Optimal thermal conditions for growth -- Effects of thermal stress on reproductive function -- Development of thermoregulation from birth to weaning -- Aging and thermoregulation -- Temperature acclimation -- Terminology -- Acclimation to cold -- Acclimation to heat -- Gender and intraspecies differences -- Gender differences -- Intraspecies differences -- Thermoregulation during chemical toxicity, physical trauma, and other adverse environmental conditions -- Chemical toxicity -- Hypoxia and ischemia -- Trauma and shock -- Hypergravity -- Regulated hypothermia: a generalized protective mechanism?

ISBN

0521414261 (hardback)

LCCN

92049550

OCLC

ocm26636322

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries